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But you can treat religious believers as a bloc because they hold a core set of beliefs, and those beliefs cause them to act a certain way. In fact, the whole p
by throwaway962237 3y ago
But you can treat religious believers as a bloc because they hold a core set of beliefs, and those beliefs cause them to act a certain way. In fact, the whole point of a religion is to bind a "bloc" of people to a common set of beliefs.
The same way you can associate conspiracy theory nationalism with Qanon believers, you can associate supernatural supremacism (i.e. "chosen by god") with Christians, Muslims, and Jews. While these religions may promote healthy behavior for "in group" morality e.g. community, family, etc. the effects on a geopolitical scale are catastrophic.
- robertlagrant 3y agoCan you list the beliefs and actions you're saying are common for all Christians?
- Kamq 3y ago> they hold a core set of beliefs, and those beliefs cause them to act a certain way Do they? I'll grant you the first part, as that's the point of a religion, but it doesn't seem to automatically imply the second. The earliest Christians, very famously, went to their deaths voluntarily while publicly forgiving their accusers. While medieval Christians slaughtered thousands trying to retake the holy-land. It's pretty reasonable to argue that those two groups had relatively similar core beliefs, but hard to argue that they had the same actions. Unless you want to count farming as an action, the vast majority of adherents to basically every religion were, historically, farmers whose lives we know very little about. It seems much more likely that a group being in power causes the effects that you see. Basically every group has an in-group bias.